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Lydian Armenia is conducting its environmental activities and studies through engaging a number of organizations.

Environmental Impact Assessments – Lydian Armenia has performed 7 local EIAs (Environmental Impact Assessment) required by the Armenian law and has 2 published ESIAs (Environmental and Social Impact Assessment) required for international financing.

Radioactivity – Water samples are sent to the Laboratory of Technical and Forensic analysis of Nuclear and Radioactive Materials of the Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant. Soil samples were analysed at «ALS Chemex» (Prague). The radioactivity impact assessment was implemented by the British company «Radman Associates».

Soil – The soil samples are sent to the «ALS Chemex» laboratory (Prague). The company has also installed Radon detectors in the houses of the villages in the vicinity of the project to measure concentration of Radon gas in the houses of the villages. The detectors were purchased from «GammaData Landauer» in Sweden where the future measurements will be implemented.

Air Quality – From 2009 to 2014 air monitoring was carried out by the British company «Gradko» and starting from 2014 by Swedish company «IVL». Besides, dust monitoring is conducted and dust samples are sent to British «DustScan» laboratory.

Weather – A Columbia Capricorn weather station is installed in the camp and it monitors and records the weather data. Weather stations have been also installed in areas of future project infrastructure. These stations have been provided by Campbell Scientific, Logan, Utah, USA. Also Hydrometeorology and Monitoring State Service of Armenia has provided archival data of Jermuk and Vorotan meteorology stations.